Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rio Grande's basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back...
...last December, Vice President Richard Nixon ventured the friendly hope that the new chief executives might meet soon. Later Nixon tried the idea out on Ike, who liked it. Last week Mexico's Foreign Ministry announced that the U.S. had invited Ruiz Cortines to meet Eisenhower at the Rio Grande border next October, and the Mexican President had accepted...
...occasion of their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
...years ago, in a hopeful effort to modernize Brazil's patchwork economy, the U.S. and Brazil set up a joint commission in Rio to pass on rail, electric power, and other projects suitable for development loans. In the spacious cordiality of the hour, U.S. officials predicted that the joint commission's work would bring Brazil from $350 to $500 million in loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the World Bank. Last week, with only $122 million in such loans granted, the U.S. prepared to wind up the commission and send its members home...
Though Brazilians had known about and even assented to the liquidation as long ago as last November, they protested loudly when they saw that the U.S. was quite serious about it. 'U.S. BREAKS ITS PROMISE OF ECONOMIC AID,' headlined Rio's Correio da Manhā. Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura voiced official dismay. Some Brazilians even talked angrily of denouncing the mutual-defense pact with...